Army

Army
Creature Type
(Subtype for creature/kindred cards)
Statistics	0 cards 44 Army creation cards 22.7% 29.5% 22.7% 9.1% 6.8% 2.3% 4.5% 2.3% as of The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
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Army is a black token-only creature class introduced in War of the Spark. Originally, it was combined with Zombie, as in Zombie Army.

Description

An army is built from the amass keyword action, which allows you to place a number of +1/+1 counter on an Army you control and create a 0/0 Zombie Army if you do not already control one. The Army functions together much like how R&D makes single creature cards that are flavored as a group of beings.

Amass was designed so you'd control one Army at most at any given time. But there are several ways around that. You could copy an Army you control, or maybe you control a creature with all creature types.

If Amass ever would return, Mark Rosewater considered it a possibility that it would create an Army of another creature type. However, this would necessitate some tweaking of the mechanic. In The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth, Army was paired with Orcs. Older cards received an update to now say "amass Zombies N."

Notable Armies

Amonkhet

• The Dreadhorde

Tokens

Token Name	Color	Type Line	P/T	Text Box	Source	Printings
Orc Army	Black	Creature — Orc Army	0/0		Assault on Osgiliath Barad-dûr Book of Mazarbul Corsairs of Umbar Deceive the Messenger Dunland Crebain Easterling Vanguard Fall of Cair Andros Foray of Orcs Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant Gríma Wormtongue Grishnákh, Brash Instigator March from the Black Gate Mordor Muster Moria Scavenger The Mouth of Sauron Orcish Bowmasters Orcish Medicine Saruman's Trickery Saruman the White Saruman, the White Hand Sauron, Lord of the Rings Sauron, the Dark Lord Shagrat, Loot Bearer Summons of Saruman Surrounded by Orcs Swarming of Moria The Torment of Gollum Treason of Isengard Warbeast of Gorgoroth Warg Rider
Sliver Army	Black	Creature — Sliver Army	0/0		Lazotep Sliver
Zombie Army	Black	Creature — Zombie Army	0/0		Angrath, Captain of Chaos Aven Eternal Bleeding Edge Callous Dismissal Commence the Endgame Crush Dissent Dreadhorde Invasion Dreadhorde Twins Enter the God-Eternals Eternal Skylord Gleaming Overseer Grim Initiate Herald of the Dreadhorde Honor the God-Pharaoh Invade the City Invading Manticore Lazotep Chancellor Lazotep Plating Lazotep Reaver Mindless Conscription Relentless Advance Toll of the Invasion Vizier of the Scorpion Widespread Brutality